Step 3. Inspiration

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Mastering UX

3 min readApr 6, 2017

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Get inspired by interesting ideas, fascinating people, new discoveries and conversations about design, psychology and life in general.

Psychology & User Experience: 10 Key Concepts (36 mins)
Patrick W. Jordan on UX Brighton

How thought-out and well-design products can help people, save lives and make us happier.

Influential UX Designers

Follow UX designers, learn from them, keep up with new trends and researches.

Watch UX talks <playlist>
Follow inspiring designers on Medium or Twitter
Listen to podcasts
Go to UX events

UX Pioneers

Dan Norman, Jakob Nielsen, Alan Cooper and Steve Krug are people who do a lot for UX community, they educate and inspire people. Their books are considered absolute must read for UX designer.

Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug is one of the most accessible and fun books about usability. It’s the first book every designer should read.

UX Thought Leaders of Today

Designers who write about design, educate and inspire people.

Julie Zhuo Product design VP at Facebook and an author of The Year of the Looking Glass blog.

Luke Wroblewski Author of Mobile First. His twitter is one of the most popular and informative.

Tomer Sharon Author of Validating Product Ideas, former researcher at Google.

Abby Covert Informational architect and an author of
How to Make Sense of Any Mess.

Jared Spool Speaker at major UX events.

How giant websites design for you (and a billion others, too) (13 mins)
Margaret Gould Stewart on TED

Facebook’s “like” and “share” buttons are seen 22 billion times a day, making them some of the most-viewed design elements ever created. Margaret Gould Stewart, Facebook’s director of product design, outlines three rules for design at such a massive scale.

Balancing Order And Chaos In UX (26 mins)
Katie Dill on Tech Open Air